668 HENRY BRUGSCH. 



new memoir evinced new progress, whether it treated of the signs 

 employed in popular script,' or showed the identity, by means of the 

 demotic, 2 of the hieroglyphic inscription of Philee with the decree of 

 Eosetta. 3 The same is true of his Doctor's thesis, in which he gave a 

 resume of the grammatical system which prevailed in Egypt in the ear- 

 liest period; 4 of an article in which he showed the identity of a Greek 

 fragment of our library with the demotic papyrus Minutoli 18 of the 

 Berlin Museum, 5 and of the chrestomathy of demotic texts, accurately 

 translated and analyzed, which lie attempted to construct.' 1 All these 

 publications, so little known to the present generation, belong to the 

 best published in their time. The errors were numerous, it is true, and 

 the works have been severely criticised, but we feel everywhere the pro- 

 found love of the scholar for his subject, and we must admire the 

 infinite resources of sagacity and patience which he expended to com- 

 pensate for the real imperfections of his philological education. Had 

 he died at that time, and left nothing else behind him, he would have 

 been reckoned among the masters of Egyptology, in the first class 

 with those who, not content to walk further in the trodden path, have 

 opened new roads. 



At first he had neglected the hieroglyphs. Now he ardently began 

 their study; but he had not yet made himself master of them when he 

 undertook, in 1853-54, with the help of the King of Prussia, his first 

 voyage in Egypt. There he met Mariette, and spent several months in 

 the Serapeum studying the recently discovered demotic inscriptions. 

 Next he went to the Said and remained a long time in Thebes. He 

 gave an account of his travels in a notice on the Natron lakes, 7 but 

 especially in his Recits d'Egypte, 8 where he describes, after Chain- 

 pollion, and analyzes the monuments and inscriptions he had seen. 

 The first result of this long excursion in the land of the Pharoahs was 

 that it furnished him with the material necessary for his Grammaire 

 Demotique. 9 This book appeared in 1855, and it has endured for forty 



1 Nuraeroi'um apud veteres iEgyptios Demoticorum doctrina. Berlin. 1849. 4°. 



2 Die Inschrift von Rosette nach ihrem aegyptisch-uemotisehen Texte spraehlich 

 und sachlich erkiart, first part of the Samnilung demotischer Urkunden. Berlin. 

 Folio. 1850. 



3 Uebereinstimmung einer hieroglyphischen Inschrift von Philae mit deru griech- 

 ischen und deniotischen Anfangstexte des Dekretes von Rosette. Berlin. 1840. 4°. 



■"De Natura et Indola linguae popularis jEgyptiorum. I. De nomine, de dialectis, 

 de litterarum sonis. Berlin. 8°. 1850. 



s Lettre a M. de Rouge" au snjet de la d6couverte d'un nianuscrit bilingue snr papy- 

 rus en 6criture dernotico-dgyptieune et en grec eursif de l'au 114 avant notre ere. 

 Berlin. 4°. 1850. 



'' Samml ung demotischer Urkunden. Berlin. 4°. 1850. 



7 Wandrung nach den Natronklostern in Aegypten. Berlin. 16°. 1855. 



8 Reiseherichte aus Aegypten, iiber eine in den Jahren 1853-54 unternommene 

 wissenschaftliclio Reise nach dem Nilthale. Leipzig. 1855. 8°. Compare Recueil 

 de Monuments. Vols. I-II. Leipzig. 4°. 1803. 



'■' Grammaire Demotique, contenant Irs y-incipes generaux de la langue et de 

 lecriture populaire des aueiens Egyptiensl. Berlin. Folio. 1855. 



